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Wow, it's been a while. I won't try and fill you in on the past six months. But the last two weeks have been very busy indeed. Firstly, I ran a marathon. And I actually ran the whole thing, too. Excuse me for being a wee bit boastful :) It was the Loch Ness Marathon, which goes along the eastern side of the loch and finishes in Inverness. 10 degrees, sunny, and crisp wintry light. It was all rather surreal by the end, when I was hobbling along at about 8km an hour. I had to choke back tears at the [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 10th 2009 | 51 Views | [diary=443857]

Loch Coruisk, Skye
Old Man of Storr, Skye
Old Man of Storr, Skye

Stormy sunshine
Stormy sunshine
Approaching Loch Eriboll
Kyle of Tongue - Lochinver - Ullapool - Durnoch - Shin Falls - Lairg - Inverness Today felt like a typical Sunday back home - very few people on the streets and very few cars on the road - except, of course, this was the far north of Scotland and every day seemed to be just like this! The weather was changeable, bright one minute, overcast the next, sometimes blue sky, sometimes black with looming clouds warning of a storm to come, sometimes calm, sometimes windy. It made for superb views and challenging photography. I've realised that my blogs all mention [View Full Entry]

Keep Smiling - Mike Fossey | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 6th 2009 | 77 Views | [diary=442134]

The only rainbow on this blog
Low highlands
Just another loch view...

The view from Cloisters
The view from Cloisters
Imagine waking up every day to this view towards the Rabbit Islands in the Kyle of Tongue
The Strathnaver Trail and the Kyle of Tongue It was Saturday and we expected terrible weekend traffic on the narrow roads of this tourist trail. It certainly proved to be like nothing we’d ever experienced before. We drove all day and, if it hadn’t been for a veteran sports car rally of 20 cars travelling in the opposite direction, our total tally of vehicles would have been: one Royal Mail van, two tractors, four fishermen’s trucks, half a dozen motorbikes, another half dozen pushbikes, and three tourists’ cars! After an excellent full Scottish breakfast ( [View Full Entry]

Keep Smiling - Mike Fossey | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 22nd 2009 | 69 Views | [diary=438589]

Loch Naver
Somewhere
Heather

The famous signpost at John o'Groats
The famous signpost at John o'Groats
...and the defunct hotel that adds nothing to the appeal of this spot in the background
John o’Groats - Castle of Mey - Dunnet Head - Kyle of Tongue We woke on Friday to the mooing of cows and a bright sunrise, a good omen for the sunny day that was to follow. Over breakfast, we talked with fellow guests about their very enjoyable day trip to the Orkneys. We can’t fit that into our itinerary this time - but we always have to keep something for next time! Instead, we drove 25 minutes east to John o’Groats - a drab place with a closed hotel and an array of dowdy tourist traps. We took a few [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 21st 2009 | 46 Views | [diary=438539]

The Castle of Mey
The Castle of Mey
Dunnet Head

We spent five days walking near Corrour Station, a station that was made famous by the film, Trainspotting. It is Britain's highest train station and the area between the station and Ben Alder is one of the most remote in Britain. in Trainspotting Tommy explains to Rents, Sickboy, Begby and the ginger one what a great country Scotland is but they wholeheartedly disagree. Maybe they knew something about the midgies nearby but they could have had few complaints about the landscape of lakes, mountain and heather. I'm sure the sheer number of deer would have impressed their drug-addled brains too. [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 29th 2009 | 48 Views | [diary=440818]

A place in the country
That's the goal.
Photo 16

Loch Maree
Loch Maree
One of the best views in Scotland
Why at home of course. In anticipation of our imminent departure from the UK we decided that it would be best if Lisa saw the best that the UK had to offer so off top the West Coast of Scotland and the Highlands we went. [View Full Entry]

Chris and Lisa - Round the World Wanderings | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 1st 2009 | 70 Views | [diary=414171]

Place Fell

After spending a couple of good weeks with family we were off again to explore Scotland. This time we headed up into the highlands to some trekking. We caught a train about halfway up the West Highland Way and made several treks in the Crianlarich area. Perfect weather was on our side and made this hill-walking even more beautiful. The walk was everything from small farms with livestock roaming the hillsides through dense forests past small waterfalls through more farms, more cows, more sheep, big birds, rabbits and more colors of green than you can imagine. We had such a good [View Full Entry]

Cliff and Ruthie - NOLA | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 11th 2009 | 55 Views | [diary=405664]

Highland Cow
The West Highland Way
Enchanted Forrest

We decided to do all of our highland sightseeing in one day so we headed up to see Loch Ness and then drove over to the west coast through the spectacular highland scenery to Elain Donan castle. We then headed south toward Oban and ended up staying at a B&B that was right on the banks of a loch and had a pub that served great food but the midges were after our blood and we couldn't enjoy the view of the loch as long as we would have liked. [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 25th 2009 | 34 Views | [diary=402026]

Elain Donan Castle
Elain Donan Castle
Elain Donan Castle

Bonjour à vous tous! Alors, que s'est-il passé depuis mon dernier chapitre? Je suis revenue de l'Irlande, j'ai repris les cours mardi de la semaine dernière et j'ai commencé à réaliser qu'il me reste très peu de temps ici. En ce lundi 27 avril, il me reste officiellement 4 semaines d'enseignement à Arnold, mais c'est un peu moins que ça parce que la plupart de mes élèves partent en study leave à la fin de cette semaine ou dans 10 jours. Il ne va que me rester les plus vieux, les Upper Sixth Form qui vont finir leurs jours à Arnold [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 27th 2009 | 38 Views | [diary=394314]

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Bonjour à vous tous! Alors, que s'est-il passé depuis mon dernier chapitre? Je suis revenue de l'Irlande, j'ai repris les cours mardi de la semaine dernière et j'ai commencé à réaliser qu'il me reste très peu de temps ici. En ce lundi 27 avril, il me reste officiellement 4 semaines d'enseignement à Arnold, mais c'est un peu moins que ça parce que la plupart de mes élèves partent en study leave à la fin de cette semaine ou dans 10 jours. Il ne va que me rester les plus vieux, les Upper Sixth Form qui vont finir leurs jours à Arnold [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 27th 2009 | 24 Views | [diary=394349]

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